Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows

Mollye Barrows

I’m Investigative Journalist Mollye Barrows. For years, I’ve covered the stories that made headlines in Northwest Florida and all along the Gulf Coast - murders, missing persons, and mysteries of all kinds. These cases are far from over for many victims because the full story has yet to surface. Join me for Gulf Coast Confidential, where I dive into the saltier side of the South and expose the lies, greed, and corruption that often weighs down the truth.

  1. 3d ago

    Hot to trot and double shot – Police officer Amber Guyger shoots to kill Botham Jean

    Send us Fan Mail Thank goodness most of us feel safe in our own homes. Botham Jean thought he was safe when he was sitting on the couch in his apartment enjoying a bowl of vanilla ice cream. Afterall, he lived only a couple of blocks from the Dallas Police Department Headquarters.  However on September 6, 2018, that turned out to be a downside when his downstairs neighbor, police woman Amber Guyger, was so busy sexting her married mentor that she mistakenly walked into Jean's apartment believing it was her own. When she saw the 26-year-old accountant in the living room, she pulled her service weapon and shot him twice, like he was the intruder. Guyger never once rendered first aid and when she called 9-1-1 she repeated 19 times that she thought it was her apartment. Although she claimed to be so weary after a 13.5 hour shift that she didn't notice she parked on the wrong floor of the garage and walked past 16 apartments, she found the time to delete the steamy text messages she was exchanging with her lover shortly before the shooting.  Join us for more on the case that nearly tore a family and a city apart in the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast, "Hot to trot and double shot – Police officer Amber Guyger shoots to kill Botham Jean." Support the show

    47 min

  2. Jun 16

    Scott Pattison, Van Damme look-a-like, murders wife with weight bar

    Send us Fan Mail Have you ever seen a grown man cry, whoop, and hyperventilate for a solid seven minutes? That’s what Miami real estate broker George Pino did while his own attorney was giving opening statements during his manslaughter trial which just got started this month. He’s accused of killing one of his daughter’s friends and leaving another severely injured after crashing his boat into a steel channel marker when a took the group of teens out to celebrate her 18th birthday.  There was one cooler filled with alcohol for the girls and another for George and his wife. The family had celebrated with friends earlier in the day at a sandbar and were headed home when George crashed straight into the channel marker and capsized the boat. The boat crasher is one of the cases we’re talking about in this week’s episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast.  We’re also talking about toll booth crasher Deanna Harrell, who was allegedly plowed when she plowed her pickup truck into a prefabricated aluminum toll booth operating a pickup truck in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, and killed a longtime toll booth attendant.  And just for a little dash of “what the feezy” we’re checking in on the case of accused California killer Nick Reiner who now wants to tap into money from the trust fund that his parents set aside for him and use it to pay for his defense for killing them.  But the main course of this week’s episode is the chilling case of Scott and Lisa Pattison.  It looked like a tragic home gym accident ….until the killer forgot about his cameras. When Lisa’s husband Scott frantically called 911 in July 2009, he claimed he found Lisa pinned by a heavy barbell across her throat at their home gym in Indiana.  He put her in his truck, racing toward the hospital, crying accident. But investigators quickly realized the math wasn't mathing.  Was it a devastating weightlifting mishap, or a coldly calculated plot driven by a secret tawdry affair?  Join us for the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential podcast “Scott Pattison, Van Damme look-a-like, murders wife with weight bar.” Support the show

    1 hr

  3. Jun 9

    Gulf Coast Confidential Gumbo - Dig in with us on several spicy cases!

    Send us Fan Mail This week our Podcast is a lil different.   We're talking about more than half a dozen cases we're following and it’s a little bit of everything: *Nicolette Keough the lady that urinates on items in Airbnb here along the Gulf Coast and then posts her photos of said activity on an Adult Internet Site.  We'll have more on how her latest court hearing went.  *Updates on Dr. Ben Brown and Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky.  *A little peek at the upcoming Summer episode we are doing on the Original Dr. Death Chris Dunstch. Texas let him go on practicing because they just couldn’t believe any surgeon could be that incompetent.   *Update on the icky Tennessee School Member Keith Ervin.  He has now been charged with Assault.  *Update on Pace Pharmacy.  *A story about a Florida Teacher, Karen Savage, that inappropriately tied a phone charger cord around a black baby doll and left it suspended over a classroom TV.  These are just the stories we are doing along with our regular True Crime Episodes.  We have an interesting Summer coming up! Support the show

    40 min

  4. Jun 2

    Texts, warm milk, and ‘Boom’ shirt – Mackenzie Shirilla’s Leap Day appeal

    Send us Fan Mail Mean girls rule by fear – the gossip, the condescension, the ostracizing – it’s all designed to keep them at the top of the food chain and others around them so scared that no one holds them accountable for their cruelty and corruption.  Some people take whatever mean girls dish out – no matter what – because they’re afraid of becoming the next target of bullying or rumors.  Queens of mean don’t deal in facts; they deal in toxic drama. No one wears that tarnished crown better than Mackenzie Shirilla. The 21-year-old Ohio woman is serving 15 years to life in prison for deliberately crashing her car into a brick wall at speeds of 100 mph. The 2022 crash killed her boyfriend, 20-year-old Dominique Russo and their friend, 19-year-old Davion Flanagan.  Thousands of recently released texts between Shirilla and Russo, show that Mackenzie, who was 17 at the time of the crash, threatened, insulted, and talked down to him repeatedly while they dated. She treated the young man more like an ATM and a whipping post than a friend or companion.  After years of this abuse, (they’d been together since she was 13), the messages show he wanted to break it off with her because he thought it was best for both of them.  She was not having it.  And the texts she sent her own dad Steve Shirilla, are enough to make any normal parent and child cringe. She demands he rub her feet, bring “warm milk” to her room, and fetch her bougie Starbucks to-go orders.  In our latest episode of Gulf Coast Confidential, “Texts, warm milk, and ‘Boom’ shirt – Mackenzie Shirilla’s Leap Day appeal,” we’re picking up where we left off with Mean Girl Barbie Mackenzie and the more, we learn the worse it is.   Support the show

    1h 4m

  5. May 29

    Florida’s Free Kill Law - The Story of Cameron Perritt

    Send us Fan Mail What happens when a medical error takes your loved one's life, but the state of Florida says you have no right to answers?  In this powerful personal documentary, we follow the family and friends of 33-year-old Cameron Perritt as they fight against Florida Statute § 768.21(8)—better known as the "Free Kill" law.  Because Cameron was over 25 and unmarried, his surviving family members are barred from seeking non-economic damages, like pain and suffering, in wrongful death claims. This legal loophole does more than block financial justice; it blocks the entire discovery process, leaving grieving families facing a wall of silence from healthcare providers.  From the heartbreaking personal loss to the high-profile billboards at the state border, witness one family’s relentless battle to repeal this controversial law and restore medical accountability in Florida. Support the show

    46 min

  6. May 26

    100 mph crash route - Mean girl Barbie Mackenzie Shirilla kills boyfriend and friend

    Send us Fan Mail Mackenzie Shirilla never hit the brakes when she crashed her car into a brick building speeding at 100 mph. Two passengers in her car were killed: her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend, Davion Flanagan. Her friends and family claim it was an accident, but the judge disagreed calling Mackenzie “hell on wheels.”  Mean Girl Regina George Wannabe Mackenzie Shirilla was sentenced to 15 years to life for premeditated murder over it. The case is the focus of a new Netflix documentary called “The Crash” and you won’t believe the arrogance and total disregard she has for others.  And the apple didn’t fall far from the tree with this one, her parents seem to be the same way. Her father, an art and media teacher, has been suspended with pay and placed on administrative leave for comments he made on the documentary. Now his daughter, the Queen of the Plastics, is in prison where visits with mother were recorded revealing that the young woman is not grieving but reveling in her global notoriety.  Join us for more on the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast “100 mph crash route- mean girl Barbie Mackenzie Shirilla kills boyfriend and friend.” Support the show

    52 min

  7. May 19

    Dean Faiello – fake doctor, real deaths, too many lies, lidocaine, and zero truths

    Send us Fan Mail Dean Faiello looked the part of a doctor. The handsome charmer wore the white coat well and spoke as if he knew what he was doing.  No one who came to his New York City officer for skincare and beauty services had any idea the so-called dermatologist didn't even have a medical license.  But behind the scenes he was cutting corners along with people’s bodies.  Faiello was busted for buying the numbing agent lidocaine off the black market, but he didn't know how to administer it properly with a syringe, or even take a pulse. When a woman in his care started having seizures as he performed several procedures on her, instead of calling 911 he loaded up her small body in a suitcase, buried it beneath the floor of his garage, and took off for Costa Rica. Even with law enforcement hot on his trail Faiello still tried to talk his way out of it and almost got away with all of it.   Join us this week for the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast, “Dean Faiello – fake doctor, real deaths, too many lies, lidocaine, and zero truths.” Support the show

    1h 5m

  8. May 12

    If it’s not one thing it’s a Mother! The bizarre and perverse cases of Leeann Yammarino and Audrey Marie Hilley

    Send us Fan Mail If Pensacola’s Judy Buenoano was the most infamous “Black Widow” serial killer, then Anniston, Alabama’s Audrey Marie Hilley was the original. Like Judy, Hilley used poison to kill, or in several cases try to kill, her husband and one of her children. When she got caught in her murderous web, Hilley ran and took on other identities, even another husband to hide from her past, but also like Judy her lies eventually unraveled.    Hilley is one of two chilling cases we discuss. We also dive into the disturbing story of Leann Yammirino, the Louisiana “Cheer Mom” who was convicted of having sex with a 14-year-old boy who went to her daughter’s school in Ascension — while also sexting at least five other teenagers. Her own daughter begged the judge to give her mom the maximum penalty at sentencing.  From calculated schemes to deadly secrets, these women prove that sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones you trust the most. Join us for the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast, “If it’s not one thing it’s a Mother! The bizarre and perverse cases of Leeann Yammarino and Audrey Marie Hilley.” Support the show

    49 min
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I’m Investigative Journalist Mollye Barrows. For years, I’ve covered the stories that made headlines in Northwest Florida and all along the Gulf Coast - murders, missing persons, and mysteries of all kinds. These cases are far from over for many victims because the full story has yet to surface. Join me for Gulf Coast Confidential, where I dive into the saltier side of the South and expose the lies, greed, and corruption that often weighs down the truth.

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